Media manipulation is not a them-versus-us relation but a shared echosystem

Evidence

It would be terribly reductive – even if partially true – to characterize such enthralments in terms of an opposition between ‘them’ (the media, journalists, the powerful, rulers, elites, the establishment) and ‘us’ (the poor little ignorant people, shamefully manipulated by Machiavellian politicians, big bosses of multinational firms, spin doctors and storytellers). Media enthralments result from an echosystem in which we are all implicated (literally: ‘folded’) – with very different and harshly unequal (but nonetheless interconnected) levels of participation, responsibility, activity, exploitation and profit. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 96

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the Frankfurt School’s hypodermic manipulation model the reader is bridging to digital media. — connects to: Media function as resonance vaults synchronizing affects, not channels for information. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 505; Attention operates as an ecosystem of echoes and variations rather than transmissions — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 531

Broader Connections

• Attention operates as an ecosystem of echoes and variations rather than transmissions #expands (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 531